There are players who have hit 450k and more

I'd rather prestige be made to unlock something interesting, like special reskinned weapons, at absurd amounts. I'm talking like, 1 at 100K prestige, 1 at 250K prestige, one at 500K prestige, one at 1 mill prestige, you know. Silly high amounts that make us dream. The problem with having it as a contest to see who can get the most of it is that it's attainable by trading in 5* gear, which means that it's basically just pay to win. Like, straight up pay to win. You cannot win if you do not pay, so you must pay to win.

Its hard to look at a board of who gave OOO the most money for OOO to tell me that they're awesome and actually think that they're awesome. Like, it doesn't work that way. They could redo the system, and make it work that way. Make it to where prestige isn't hoardable or buyable, and instead base it off of a number of factors and score your runs and then rank you buy your best ever runs. But IDK about that even.

yes, things like this are great.
I also would love to know how many times I've fought vanaduke, or how many slag walkers I've killed, and so on. (But then people would get all sad about kill steals...ugh...it's just a silly statistic!).

Rewards...they would be nice? But people who go after prestige are generally people who really just enjoy playing the game, and that is its own reward.

Would still be nice...IMO, I think you should be able to choose one accessory/gear out of all extant (currently released at the time of your ability to choose one) accessories/gear once every 50k prestige, that would be nice. It would be bound of course, so you'd have to attach and then recover it (gear-unbind) if you want to sell it (pretty big economic impact, I think - obviously, this would be a marketing strategy for many players). Limitations should be in place, like no obsolete items, or OCH items, etc. Of course, the raw prestige score would remain (you wouldn't "spend" the prestige points away on this stuff).

This would also give an economic reason to do that otherwise horrendously stupid "Arms Appropriation" thing. Yeah, I would for sure toss my unheated no-UV gear into that if it meant I'd get any accessory I wanted eventually.

It's a bit evil really - get players playing day to day longingly, and throwing crafting resources/time/the objects themselves in a desperate effort to suck up every last prestige they can as fast as possible. Mmmm. Personal strategy: hover at the 49,999 interval mark (wherever that is, 149,999, or 249,999, whatever it is with however the math works out -pretty sure it wouldn't be "999" but you get the idea -, until the next promo is released - then BAM, grab that new accessory and wear it or sell it).

So yeah, that's why I like prestige the way it is - it's largely a mark of how much a person enjoys playing the game, more than anything else. So that's why I don't really support rewards for it, but, I still like the IDEA of a reward...Perhaps even choose your own unique variant...like, a specific ticket for Punch that gives exactly a certain level and type of UV. Shh, one can dream!

Back to the main OP's idea: yes yes, more things to look at - and it would reveal, potentially, that the game is more active than it might seem. Especially if you could see all the prestige scores that are above 10k (so those silly inactives/inactive alts are not in the tier).

One issue with this - how would player activity factor in? Cause I have plenty of friends with sky-high prestige that have not played in over half a year. Though I suppose this doesn't really matter.

I feel like it would be pointless, if its all time prestige it will just be 10 or so mega rich players with 400-500k prestige at the top, and you could never catch up. If they make it weekly or monthly its a finite score, only so much is attainable, so it would just be the same number of prestige over and over. Prestige is kinda bugged anyways, there were ways to get infinite prestige when it came out, and there has been times when you got prestige when you shouldn't have.

Arms Appropriation is perfectly doable without being a paying player nowadays. 2*/3* orbs aren't that much, 5* orbs are in abundance if you do a lot of T3, it's mostly grinding for the 4* and heating the weapons that takes time.

That said, it doesn't give as much as you'd think. It'll still take 3 months to catch up with a player that's 4k ahead in prestige. But, it's currently the only way to do so, besides the occasional bug (assuming both players do all other missions every day)